On Friday 03 August 2012 04:19:22 Jelle Hermsen wrote: > Thanks for all these great tips. I'm building a new workstation and I'll > probably buy an ssd and use it as root. I'm thinking about maximizing > the amount of ram and then use tmpfs for /tmp. This will (hopefully) > still leave me with enough memory to avoid swapping all together so I > can put the swap partition on a spinning platter drive. > The only thing that still leads me to doubt is the fact that I won't be > able to use dedup on the ssd and compared to using a couple of 10,000rpm > disks in raid 0 the random write performance is not that impressive.
I don't see why you can't, or shouldn't, dedup an SSD. Deduping looks for identical sectors and frees one of them; since an SSD is completely random-access, there's no penalty for having some sectors far from the file's inode. Recopying an SSD is what makes no sense. Pierre -- sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera
